ICD-10

The historical context of the 10th revision is referenced in this article at the WHO website. The 10th revision was expected to be a fundamental revision and it was realised that to facilitate assessment and collaboration, a generous length of time between revisions was merited. The Conference for the 10th revision was delayed until 1989 and was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 1990.

There is a large amount of material on ICD-10 at the WHO website. This includes a self-directed learning tool, the instruction manual and an online browser based version of ICD-10. There are also details of the previous versions of the online version of ICD-10.

Due to the international status of ICD-10 it has become the starting point for many important discussions – about morbidity and mortality classifications in general, about interoperability and also the use of SNOMED-CT®.

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